The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter I. The Cyclone, sentence 46

It was very dark, and the wind howled horribly around her, but Dorothy found she was riding quite easily.

Who acts: house, wind, Dorothy · What happens: be, howl, find, ride · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter I. The Cyclone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, wind, Dorothy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 dark	advmod
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 howled	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 howled	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 howled	nsubj
9	howled	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	advcl
10	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	9 howled	advmod
11	around	around	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 howled	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 found	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 found	cc
15	Dorothy	Dorothy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 found	nsubj
16	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	advcl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 riding	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 riding	aux
19	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 found	ccomp
20	quite	quite	ADV	_	21 easily	advmod
21	easily	easily	ADV	_	19 riding	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	house	dark property	tree rules
2	howl	past	the wind	around pressure; horribly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around she=Location
3	find	past	Dorothy		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	ride	past · progressive	wind	easily property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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